Tax Expert Witnesses
What is a tax expert witness?
Tax expert witness candidates typically have experience in forensic accounting, economic damages, business valuation, tax law, and/or are a certified public accountant (CPA) or certified fraud examiner. Taxation expert witnesses possess the experience and knowledge to support business and individual taxation proceedings and the tax implications of certain financial transactions. Tax expert witnesses are often members of the American Board of Forensic Examiners and the American Board of Forensic Accountants.
What types of cases require a tax expert witness?
Litigation support by taxation expert witnesses can include cases involving federal taxation laws, real estate tax issues, accountant malpractice, accounting fraud, and perform calculations for economic damages and lost profits.
Tax expert witness case examples
Representing the plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services is frequently called upon by attorney firm clients to locate expert witnesses for a wide range of tax and financial matters. The firm has performed searches for numerous tax matters including:
- tax litigation involving fraud,
- tax shelter investigation,
- economic damages relating to professional malpractice,
- money laundering,
- fiduciary duty, and
- estate planning.
What litigation support work might a tax expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support services by a tax expert witness could include analyses of financial records, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, depositions, trial preparation, and courtroom testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may require a tax professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a tax expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Tax Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Tax experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Tax landscape.
Expert Witness #251152
This expert was an Administrator of the ATF's Tobacco Tax and Trade Board (TTB). Now retired, this expert is in a consulting position.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #253283
This expert is Managing Director of a nationally recognized business valuation/investigative services and tax consulting and compliance firm. This expert has provided business valuation, dispute advisory, forensic accounting, and tax consulting services to clients for many years. This expert has also implemented and administered back and middle office operations for private equity and venture capital funds.
With respect to litigation support activities, this expert is a recognized business valuation and economic damages expert, and has presented expert witness testimony in these areas on numerous occasions. Among other engagements, this expert has provided business valuation services for M&A transactions, corporate divestitures, marital dissolutions, shareholder/partner disputes, joint ventures, estate and gift tax matters, and has analyzed economic damages for both plaintiffs and defendants. On each engagement, this expert uses training as a forensic accountant to formulate comprehensive and understandable analyses.
With respect to forensic accounting expertise, this expert has assisted attorneys throughout all phases of investigations from pre-case assessment through expert witness testimony. Among other engagements, this expert has provided forensic accounting services related to procurement reviews, tenant/landlord lease verifications, and income/cash flow assessments.
This expert holds the following certifications and qualifications:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)- Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV)- Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)- Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA)This expert has authored articles, and has presented at numerous business conferences.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #253292
This expert is a Principal with a nationally recognized business valuation/investigative services and tax consulting and compliance firm. This expert is one of the firm's senior tax and legal technicians, and has provided consulting services to a variety of partnerships, corporations, estates, and high net worth individuals.
For many years, this expert has consulted with numerous publicly-traded, private, and family-owned businesses to develop, manage, and report tax-efficient strategies. This expert's experience encompasses the real estate, professional services, private equity and venture capital, retail, and financial services industries. This expert's experience also extends to assisting counsel with litigation support and forensic accounting services for matters including income taxation, real estate, complex investment profiles and the accountant's standard of care.
This expert serves as Director of the Tax Practice. Examples of this expert's tax planning and compliance engagements include: Implementing the adoption of an ESOP structure including coordination of plan adoption, the owner's exit strategy and identification of third party lending sources; establishing REIT testing guidelines and training for the manager of a $250 million privately held multi-property REIT; providing comprehensive Section 409A guidance for the deferred compensation packages of a large financial institution's executive management team, including assisting counsel in conforming the plan to 409A requirements; coordinating the qualification of substantial Research and Development Credits for a manufacturing company; providing tax strategies, income tax compliance, and business consultation to over a dozen high net worth individuals and their business each for 10 years or more; conducting several dozen cost segregation studies for commercial retail, office, and hospitality properties; active participation as a member of the team that developed the UPREIT structure, now common in the REIT industry; managing the outsourced tax departments of a publicly traded REIT with capital value in excess of $1 billion, as well as a privately held retail chain with $1 billion in gross receipts; and managing dozens of IRS audits including the resolution of an audit adjustment in excess of $1 billion.
Examples of this expert's litigation support and forensic accounting engagements include: Litigation consulting regarding "Springing Recourse" obligations; complex federal income tax applications of Section 197 intangibles (Goodwill) and related anti-churning provisions; consulting with counsel on complex management contract buy-out disputes and multi-property family real estate disputes; providing forensic accounting services to financial institution work-out officers and their counsel for obligations aggregating to over $100 million; and assisting a $100 million real estate development company and their counsel with support to work-out loans during the 2008 real estate economic tsunami.
This expert has a bachelor's degree and a law degree.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #253332
This expert is a Managing Director in a real estate practice within the Valuation Advisory group. This expert's concentration is in commercial real estate valuation and advisory services, where this expert has many years of national and international appraisal, review, and consulting experience. This expert's experience encompasses a wide range of commercial real estate engagements covering numerous property types from core properties to special purpose properties, and a variety of matter types such as litigation, estate & gift tax reporting, financial reporting, and consulting. This expert's experience includes many public speaking engagements and this expert has been qualified as an expert witness and has testified in a variety of state and local jurisdictions.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #257658
This expert has been a traditional tax advisor for many years. This expert now specializes in cryptocurrency tax advising for investors and clients and has become a well-known name in Crypto-Blockchain circles, for producing national events and conferences on the topic. This expert has taken several graduate-level courses on Cryptocurrency and has numerous connections with others in this small but quickly growing field.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #257941
This expert is a licensed and certified CPA. This expert's practice includes tax and forensic accounting, litigation support, IRS issue resolution, tax preparation and tax planning advice and this expert has deep experience as an expert witness. Previous to founding a consulting firm, this expert worked as a Revenue Agent where this expert won honors, and was responsible for Businesses, Financial Products & Transactions, and Small Business & Self-Employed taxpayers, completing field audits and financial reports. This expert was also a tax preparer and understands tax debt reduction services. This expert is well-published and has presented at national and regional conferences and symposia on the IRS, taxes, and related topics.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #257941
This expert is a licensed and certified CPA. This expert's practice includes tax and forensic accounting, litigation support, IRS issue resolution, tax preparation and tax planning advice and this expert has deep experience as an expert witness. Previous to founding a consulting firm, this expert worked as a Revenue Agent where this expert won honors, and was responsible for Businesses, Financial Products & Transactions, and Small Business & Self-Employed taxpayers, completing field audits and financial reports. This expert was also a tax preparer and understands tax debt reduction services. This expert is well-published and has presented at national and regional conferences and symposia on the IRS, taxes, and related topics.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #257962
This expert holds an LL.M. in Taxation. This expert focuses on tax issues related to individuals and business transactions and has litigated matters in federal and state trial courts, tax court, and state appeals court. This expert has significant experience in the preparation of federal and state tax returns.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #260208
This expert is an expert in applied finance and energy matters with many years of experience in complex commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory proceedings. This expert has been retained as an expert to testify in international and domestic arbitration, and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, US Tax Court, US Federal Court, and US Bankruptcy Court, the National Energy Board in Canada, as well as state and provincial public utilities boards in the US and Canada. In the oil and gas sectors, this expert has consulted on rate matters, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, contract disputes, valuation and product pricing. This expert has served as an expert in regulatory hearings and has also carried out studies of the reasonableness of gas supply agreements in various jurisdictions and quantified damages in connection with the early termination of such agreements
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #260548
This expert holds a Masters degree in Economics and brings to the table many years of experience specializing in tax issues and public policy. This expert serves as Chief Economist for a highly respected economics consultancy that focuses on the impact of fiscal policy on economic performance; shortcomings of existing tax systems and proposals for reform; and the long-run effects of growing fiscal imbalances.
This expert's work has often played a pivotal role in the policy making process. This expert's work on the adverse effects of high estate taxes on entrepreneurship, for example, is frequently cited by proponents of transfer tax reform. Similarly, this expert's work on the role that excessive excise taxes have played in encouraging tax evasion and related crime has made this expert a frequent witness when states and localities are considering additional tax hikes.
This expert worked as an economist where this expert started as a temporary employee fresh out of graduate school, and left as its chief economist. This expert become a senior economist specializing in tax issues. This expert has also worked as an economist and budget analyst for the federal government. This expert has worked on a wide variety of tax issues including the effects of tax credits. This expert served as an expert witness. In this case the governments alleged that they lost hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue because of illegal cigarette shipments into the city.
This expert's work has been cited in many influential publications. This expert has also published opinion pieces in newspapers across the country. In addition, this expert has appeared on numerous broadcast and cable news programs and given hundreds of interviews on radio stations nationwide.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #265442
This expert has been a commercial lender and involved in tax matters in many hundreds of millions of dollars of commercial properties (equity and financing included). This expert is very familiar with SEC filings, residential and commercial real estate. This expert understands and has experience with defeasance clauses and provisions. This expert actively serves as a testifying litigation expert witness in residential and commercial real estate, financing, securitization and mortgage foreclosure fraud. This expert has worked on over 1,000 cases, testifying in hundreds of cases nationwide. This expert is a U.S. Treasury, Internal Revenue Service Certified Acceptance Agent. This expert is BAR accredited to instruct attorneys in Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and nationwide reciprocal BARs on the subjects of residential and commercial real estate, financing, securitization and mortgage foreclosure fraud.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #268339
This CPA and tax expert is a tax lawyer with an LL.M. in taxation, a CPA credential, and over 15 years of industry experience at a major accounting firm, a large retailer, and an international cement company.
This expert most recently held a senior industry role focused on tax planning, IRS audits, and international tax planning. Since leaving industry, this expert has served as full-time faculty at a large state university teaching tax, ethics, and financial accounting. This expert is also a national speaker on CPE topics covering taxation and CPA ethics.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #270587
This tax expert is often recognized among leading tax lawyers and has broad tax experience across many types of taxpayers and industries.
This expert is the author of over 30 tax books, has written tax columns for major tax and business publications, and has hosted a tax law channel for a legal broadcasting network.
This expert has testified as an expert over 50 times, with experience that includes evaluating loyalty programs from a tax viewpoint for companies.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #274699
This tax audit expert holds an MBA, CFE, and CVA and is a former federal criminal tax investigation special agent now in private practice assisting attorneys defending clients under investigation for alleged white-collar financial crimes. This expert previously served in a senior regional criminal investigation leadership role for a federal tax authority, where responsibilities included overseeing a large team of agents conducting criminal investigations involving income and employment tax matters.
This expert worked jointly with federal and state audit and collection civil divisions to identify areas of non-compliance. This expert holds an MBA from a well-regarded university and a B.Sc. in Accounting from a college.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #281183
This lost earnings/damages expert leads a healthcare consulting firm focused on valuation and financial analysis for hospitals, physician practices, and other healthcare enterprises. This expert has served a diverse range of healthcare industry and medical professional clients nationwide, including physician solo and group private practices across medical specialties, subspecialties, and allied health professions; hospitals and health systems, both tax-exempt and for-profit; managed care organizations; ancillary service providers; outpatient services; management services organizations; government agencies; public health and safety agencies; other related healthcare enterprises and agencies; and advisory professionals.
This expert provides a wide range of technical assistance to legal counsel through litigation support services focused solely on the healthcare industry, including lost or enhanced earnings capacity, antitrust issues, provider relationships, healthcare valuation of enterprises, assets, and services, commercial damages, merger, acquisition, or divestiture transactions, managed care issues, healthcare industry research, shareholder disputes, economic and utilization demand forecasting, bankruptcy, discrimination, certificate of need feasibility analyses, and fraud and abuse issues. This expert has assisted in cases in Federal District Courts, State Courts, Tax Court, Bankruptcy Court, and arbitrations, involving complex economic, legal, financial, valuation, and related issues across a broad spectrum of provider entities in the healthcare industry.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #286435
This estate valuation expert has valued numerous estates containing various assets and liabilities, typically for estate tax return filings and often involving discounts for lack of marketability and control.
This expert has been retained in various estate matters, including matters involving significant depletion of estate assets under trustee oversight and large estates with multiple beneficiaries and disproportionate distributions.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #287187
This tax expert holds a B.Sc. in Management and a J.D., is a licensed CPA in California and Virginia, and is a Certified Fraud Analyst (CVA) and Certified Forensic Examiner (CFE) with over 30 years of professional experience.
This expert performs valuations for estate, gift, and other tax filings, succession planning, buy-sell agreements, management buy-outs, ESOPs, mergers and acquisitions, financing, reorganizations, shareholder disputes, marital dissolutions, and litigation.
This expert has worked as a tax practitioner for businesses, partnerships, and individuals over time, including audits and valuations involving a federal tax authority. Relevant experience includes tax-specific matters involving tax preparation practices, fraudulent tax forms, duty-of-care and malpractice issues, tax overpayment issues caused by accounting work, CFO standard-of-care issues involving accounting, and damages matters arising from tort and contract issues.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #287260
This appraisal/valuation expert holds senior leadership roles at a valuation, appraisal, and forensic economics firm and is trained in preparing damage calculations, business valuations, and forensic accounting.
This expert's experience covers economic damages, valuations for matrimonial and estate tax purposes, gift planning, shareholder disputes, and buy/sell agreements.
This expert has extensive experience in tax return preparation, accounting, and auditing for public and privately held companies, including manufacturing, wholesale and retail distribution, professional service organizations, and not-for-profit organizations, as well as over 5 years of accounting experience in the private sector.
This expert has experience determining the value of inventories in many prior matters.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #290054
This tax and accounting expert is a certified public accountant licensed by a state board of accountancy and has completed a Core Forensic Accounting Certificate through a prominent professional accounting institute. Areas of focus include expert witness testimony, litigation consultation, fraud investigation, and business valuation. With over 25 years of professional experience, this expert worked for a public accounting firm with responsibilities including preparation of audited financial statements and individual and business tax returns. This expert later served in various controller and CFO roles in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail, and construction industries.
This expert began a career in public accounting at a firm that blended audit and tax teams and has a number of years of tax preparation experience. In various roles outside of public accounting, this expert has been the primary liaison between organizations, business partners, and tax preparation firms.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #291197
This agribusiness and livestock expert is a CPA with a niche specialty in equine and agricultural businesses, working closely with clients in animal-related industries.
This expert's client experience includes work involving large-animal veterinary practices focused on cattle, registered cattle breeding operations, equine reproduction specialists, and equine nutrition specialists.
This expert's understanding of animal practices, combined with a varied accounting background, supports analysis in matters involving animal businesses such as cattle breeding. This expert has conducted economic analyses of quarter horse breeding businesses in litigation involving claims for economic damages.
This expert has helped agribusinesses in broader agricultural regions of California for over 25 years, including work involving cash flow management, payroll, taxes, and succession planning. This expert is knowledgeable about tax law affecting agricultural businesses and understands the cyclical nature of crops and the long-term commitment to livestock breeding required for profitability.
In a senior leadership role at an accounting firm, this expert focuses on the needs of agricultural businesses, including leased or owned land, bred and raised livestock, grown crops, and distributed products. This expert's work includes visiting farm operations of varying sizes as part of the accounting and advisory process.
Additional services include tax preparation in compliance with state and federal laws for quarterly and annual returns, tax planning throughout the year to maximize profits and minimize taxes, strategic business planning and valuation to clarify business direction and prepare for loans and funding, and CFO consulting on tax-related business issues.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #294362
This tax law expert holds a JD and LLM and is a practicing attorney with over 15 years of tax law experience.
This expert has acted as an expert in multiple Employee Retention Credit matters and has analyzed numerous clients for ERC eligibility. This expert has also participated in strategic determinations related to interpretations of applicable rules, IRS guidance, and questions of client eligibility. This expert is experienced in representing clients in tax controversy matters before the IRS and state and local taxing authorities, and has obtained multiple favorable private letter rulings for clients.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #295738
This tax regulation and audit specialist holds a JD and leads a national tax consultancy dealing with local, state, and federal audits, criminal investigations, IRS collections, and civil and criminal tax litigation in state courts, federal district courts, the United States Tax Court, and appeals. This expert has special expertise in defending against IRS audits.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #296529
This IRS audit/tax controversy expert has over 25 years of experience as an IRS Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent and over 40 years of experience as a Certified Public Accountant.
This expert is a former Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent with IRS Criminal Investigation and has broad experience in forensic accounting, investigative services, and dispute services, including operating an independent practice. This expert is experienced in asset forfeiture and asset tracing, including recovery-related work, and has performed international investigations involving Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs), provisional arrest warrants, and overseas depositions.
This expert's expertise includes fraud, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and investigations. This expert is experienced in asset tracing, due diligence, insolvency opinions, investigation and testimony regarding piercing the corporate veil, bankruptcy-related investigations, state and federal tax controversy, tax opinions, white-collar defense, internal investigations, diversion schemes, damages and loss analysis, complex corporate class action disputes, and partner, shareholder, and family disputes.
This expert is a Certified Fraud Examiner and licensed private detective in Illinois. This expert is a member of professional accounting, fraud examination, federal criminal investigation, and former IRS special agent associations.
This expert has testified in federal and state court, arbitration, and deposition. This expert provides expert opinions and fact-based reports in high-value disputed matters. This expert's investigative experience includes corporate fraud; criminal tax; failed banks and savings and loans; bankruptcy, securities, foreign exchange, and mortgage fraud; Ponzi schemes; inflated billing schemes; sophisticated pension fraud schemes; healthcare fraud; identity theft; illegal immigration employment schemes; false claims; public corruption and bribery; investigations involving organized crime; and international and local drug conspiracies.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #296538
This IRS audit and tax controversy expert has over 20 years of experience as a federal tax agency criminal investigation Special Agent and over 30 years as a Certified Public Accountant, with nationwide recognition for expertise in tax laws, audit procedures, and tax disputes. This expert has authored a number of commercially successful books about tax-agency disputes and has shared tax controversy knowledge through national conferences, television programs, and prominent publications.
This expert has a comprehensive understanding of tax laws and federal tax-agency procedures, including qualified representation in audits, tax disputes, and collection activities. This expert has authored a number of books on tax-agency representation, including topics such as unpaid payroll taxes and penalty abatement.
As a Special Agent, this expert investigated a wide range of financial crimes, including income, employment, and excise tax violations, embezzlement, wire fraud, mail fraud, gambling-related offenses, drug-trafficking-related financial activity, bank fraud, money laundering, structuring, and bankruptcy fraud. This expert has helped courts understand the financial issues in many cases and has experience interviewing witnesses, preparing witnesses for trial, and writing detailed reports that present complex information in an understandable format. This expert has interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, built rapport, uncovered relevant facts, and prepared witnesses for grand jury and trial testimony. This expert's reports, supported by strong evidence, have helped establish elements of financial crimes and investigative findings.
Start Tax Expert SearchExpert Witness #302945
This real estate law expert is an attorney with over 15 years of concentrated experience in real estate law, including real estate transactions, foreclosure and tax sale related matters, loss mitigation, and real estate-focused litigation. This expert's work has routinely involved advising clients on post-transfer obligations, title and recording issues, tax consequences of transfers, and this expert duties of counsel in high-risk real estate transactions.
This expert regularly lectures and publishes on real estate, litigation risk, and professional responsibility issues, and is frequently called upon to analyze and explain complex legal and procedural issues for courts, arbitrators, and opposing counsel.
This expert has not yet acted as an expert witness, but is comfortable with expert analysis, report preparation, deposition, and court testimony.
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